September 2025 - Brockley SE4

Music Monday: Martin Carthy celebration (and rehearsals in New Cross Road)

Sep

29

2025

A lovely night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday to celebrate the life and songs of folk legend Martin Carthy.The event was organised by Jon Wilks and Campbell Baum (Broadside Hacks), with the stage set up as a mythical pub, The North Country Maid, where musicians sat at tables and refreshed their glasses at the ...

Music Monday: Martin Carthy celebration (and rehearsals in New Cross Road)

Sep

29

2025

A lovely night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday to celebrate the life and songs of folk legend Martin Carthy.The event was organised by Jon Wilks and Campbell Baum (Broadside Hacks), with the stage set up as a mythical pub, The North Country Maid, where musicians sat at tables and refreshed their glasses at the ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...

Bermondsey Folk Festival 2025

Sep

16

2025

Bermondsey Folk Festival is back on Saturday, 27 September 2025 in the Blue market (SE16 3UQ) from 12 noon to 5 pm, in an event that will feature Jacken Elswyth (amazing banjo player with Shovel Dance Collective), Cunning Folk (launching new album Folk Process 2), Bity Booker, Indika Akuus, Gemma Khawaja, Okinawa Sanshinkai and others.The ...

Cenotaph South – South London’s poetic landscape

Sep

7

2025

'Cenotaph South: mapping the lost poets of Nunhead Cemetery' (Penned in the Margins, 2016) by Chris McCabe is a remarkable book. Partly it is what it says on the cover – an exploration of some of the largely forgotten poets buried there including Marian Richardson and Albert Craig. But he also wanders over the wider ...

Pagemasters Zine Fair 2025

Sep

3

2025

Coming up next weekend (6/7 September 2025), the Pagemasters Zine Fair at ArtHub Studios, Stanley Street SE8 4BL (near New Cross station). More than 40 publishers stalls plus lots more. Look out for some local history from Past Tense and South London Landscape History. More details here

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